Maine Won't Discriminate

Good news. As I blogged earlier, Maine voters have in the last decade repeatedly faced questions in their statewide elections on whether they would like to endorse anti-discrimination based on sexual orientation. Happily, on Tuesday November 8, Maine voters rejected a measure to repeal a recently enacted civil rights bill which indluded sexual orientation. The vote was 55% No, 45% Yes on the question of whether the civil rights bill should be repealed. The good guys won! Maine becomes the 16th state in the United States to have a statewide anti-discrimimation measure which includes sexual orientation. Maine's measure also includes transgender protections, making it the 6th state to do so.